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| Leukimia is a cancer that begins where? |
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| What do you call blood that flows through the heart and blood vessels? |
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| What is an immature blood cell called? |
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| How does leukimia damage the body? |
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The abnormal WBCs crowd out the normal WBCs, RBCs, and platelets and make it difficult for the blood to function. |
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| Which type of leukimia has a predominance of immature blast cells? |
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| Which type of leukimia has mature cells? |
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In which type of leukimia does the patient die quickly? |
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| What type of leukimia is more common in children? |
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| Would a painless lymph node more likely be malignant or benign? |
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| malignant, the painful ones are probably due to infection |
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| What are the symptoms of leukimia? |
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ANT
Anemia
Neutropenia
Thrombocytopenia |
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| What are the two pre-proliferative conditions? |
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1) (MPS) myeloproliferative syndrome
2) (MDS) myelodysplastic syndrome |
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| What are the clinical features of leukimia? |
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1) anemia (low RBC)
2) fever (low WBC)
3) bleeding tendency (low PLT)
4) tender bones, lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly (Leukimic infiltration) |
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| What is Burkitt's lymphoma a tumour of? |
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| Where does Burkitt's lymphoma usually arise? |
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| Burkitt's lymphoma is uniformly associated with translocations of what proto-oncogene? |
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| c-MYC, a proto-oncogene is a gene that can become an oncogene through increased expression. An oncogene is a modified gene or set of nucleotides that codes for a protein and is thought to cause cancer. |
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| Burkitt's lymphoma is latently associated with infection by what virus? |
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| Which type of lymphoma features Reed Sternberg cells and eosinophilia? |
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| Hodgkins lymphoma, the curable one, as opposed to non Hodgkins lymphoma that is not characterized by Reed Sternberg cell or eosinophilia |
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| What cells are Reed Sternberg cells derived from? |
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| In which type of lymphoma is there a detectable pattern of the tumour through the lymph node? |
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NonHodgkins
follicular lymphoma |
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| Which white blood cell cancer involves a more mature lymphocyte than either leukimia or lymphoma? |
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| What type of cancer comes in old age, is due to malignancy of the Plasma cells, specifically B lymphocytes, characterized by lytic bone lesions, marked antibody production of monoclonal antibodies, hyper gammaglobulinemia leading to blindness, and immunod |
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| Which type of cancer involves enlargement of the liver and spleen? |
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| leukimia, both leukimia and lymphadenopathy involve lymph node swelling |
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| What disorder causes blood to clot inappropriately in the capillaries yet blood won't clot in cases of trauma |
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| Thrombotic thrombocytopenic Purpura |
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